One of the missing ingredients in PowerShell when I tried to use it was network transparency - which I suspect will be hard to solve since it passes .net object

One of the missing ingredients in PowerShell when I tried to use it was network transparency - which I suspect will be hard to solve since it passes .net objects around. It is not often that I pipe things into or out off ssh, a Unix domain socket or a pipe, but when I do it’s usually significantly easier and more efficient than other ways. I also often save outputs rather than pipe, to inspect/debug, or avoid re-computation. I last played with PowerShell on Win7 ages ago so things might have improved dramatically (e.g. if every output is guaranteed to round trip serialize with a network stream).